| John Rubin | |
| State House: | Kansas |
| State: | Kansas |
| District: | 18th |
| Term Start: | January 10, 2011 |
| Term End: | January 9, 2017 |
| Preceded: | Cindy Neighbor |
| Succeeded: | Cindy Neighbor |
| Party: | Republican |
| Birth Date: | 23 June 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Spouse: | Roberta Rubin |
| Profession: | Kansas State Representative; attorney; former federal administrative law judge; former FDIC Regional Counsel; arbitrator. |
| Residence: | Shawnee, Kansas, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Boston College Washington University in St. Louis |
| Website: | http://www.johnrubin.net |
John Rubin (born June 23, 1948, in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Overland Park, Kansas) is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives who represented the 18th district (Shawnee in Johnson County).[1]
Rubin received his B.A. in political science magna cum laude from Boston College in 1970, and a J.D. degree from the Washington University School of Law in 1973. After graduation, Rubin served on active duty as a JAG Corps officer with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. He returned to Kansas City to work for the Kansas City District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as an attorney-advisor. Rubin soon was promoted to serve as a Labor Attorney with the Federal Labor Relations Authority in Kansas City, Missouri, then Assistant Regional Counsel at the Kansas City Regional Office of the Fereal Bureau of Prisons, a senior litigator for the Kansas City Region of the FDIC, and ultimately FDIC Regional Counsel in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1994, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, appointed him as a Federal Administrative Law Judge for the Social Security Administration in Kansas City, Kansas. He retired ten years later from the federal bench, and has been an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority since. In 2010, Rubin was elected to represent the 18th district seat in the Kansas House of Representatives, where he served until he voliuntarily retired from the seat in January 2017.
John Rubin married Roberta Frances (née Torin) of St. Louis, Missouri, on August 19, 1972. They returned to the Atlanta area in 2018, after his retirement from the Kansas Legislature, residing since in Acworth, Paulding County, Georgia. They celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary on August 19, 2020. They have two children, Shana McNeil, of Denver, Colorado, and Sandy Rubin, of Marietta, Georgia, and three grandchildren. Rubin is a practicing Roman Catholic.[2]